An tuhumi wani tsohon mai ba da labari na FBI da yin ƙarya game da alakar shugaban Amurka Joe Biden da ɗansa Hunter da wani kamfanin makamashi na Yukren.
David Weiss, lauya na musamman da ke jagorantar binciken aikata laifuka a Hunter Biden, ya ce wani babban alkali ya tuhumi Alexander Smirnov kan zargin yin “bayani na karya” da “kirkirar bayanan karya da tatsuniyoyi”.
Weiss ya ce an kama Smirnov mai shekaru 43 a filin jirgin sama na Harry Reid da ke Las Vegas, Nevada, bayan ya dawo Amurka daga ketare.
Idan aka same shi da laifi Smirnov zai iya fuskantar daurin shekaru 25 a gidan yari.
“Duk da tsawatarwar da aka yi na cewa dole ne ya bayar da bayanan gaskiya ga FBI kuma kada ya ƙirƙira shaida, wanda ake tuhuma ya ba da bayanan lalata” game da Bidens, in ji masu gabatar da kara a cikin tuhumar da aka shigar a kotun tarayya.
Smirnov ya yi ikirarin cewa Hunter Biden, wanda ke zaune a hukumar Burisma da ke Kyiv, ya yi amfani da sunan mahaifinsa wajen neman cin hancin miliyoyin daloli daga kamfanin.
Smirnov ya fadawa FBI cewa shugabannin Burisma sun ce sun dauki hayar Hunter Biden don “kare mu, ta hanyar mahaifinsa, daga kowane irin matsala” kuma sun biya Hunter da Joe Biden $ 5m kowannensu a 2015 ko 2016, a cewar tuhumar.
‘Yan Republican sun kama ikirarin Smirnov na zargin dangin Biden da cin hanci da rashawa tare da tabbatar da binciken Majalisar Wakilan Amurka game da tsige Shugaban.
Kakakin Majalisa Kevin McCarthy ya ba da misali da zargin cin hanci da “mai ba da labari na FBI” ya yi lokacin da ya ba da sanarwar binciken tsige Biden a bara.
Lauyan Hunter Biden, Abbe Lowell, ya ce tuhumar ta tabbatar da gargadin watanni da aka yi cewa ‘yan Republican suna shiga cikin ka’idojin makircin da mutanen da ke da manufofin siyasa ke rura wutar rikici.
“Mun yi gaskiya kuma iskar ta fita daga balan-balan su,” in ji Lowell.
Hunter Biden, wanda a bara aka tuhume shi da laifin kin biyan haraji da kuma laifukan da suka shafi bindigogi, ya zauna a kwamitin Burisma daga 2014 zuwa 2019.
A wasu lokutan, Joe Biden ya kasance mataimakin shugaban kasa a karkashin tsohon shugaba Barack Obama.
ALJAZEERA/Ladan Nasidi.